Trials for High Treason: In Scotland, Under a Special Commission : Held at Stirling, Glasgow, Dumbarton, Paisley, and Ayr, in the Year 1820, Band 3Manners and Miller, 1825 |
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act of compassing Act of Parliament Act of Sederunt Address answer appear April asked called Cartside Mill cause charge compassing and imagining compassing the King's complain copy counsel Court of Session crime crowd Crown declaration deponent ditto duty Edinburgh Edward III evidence examination factor Gentlemen guilty Hagg Mill hear heard High Treason honour Houstoun Houstoun's mill imagining the death indictment James Speirs James Walker John Hay Johnstone Judges Jury King King's death learned Friend letter Lord Advocate Lord Chief Baron Lord Coke Lord Justice Lord Justice Clerk Lord President Hope Lord Succoth Lordship meeting ment minors object Old Mill opinion overt act paper Parker party person petition petitioner preses prisoner proceedings proved question recollect ring School-green Scotland shew speak statute stop the mill thing tion verdict William Houstoun witness words
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Seite 194 - ... in order, by force or constraint, to compel him or them to change his or their measures or counsels, or in order to put any force or constraint upon, or to intimidate or overawe both houses, or either house of parliament...
Seite 42 - Tis thou, thrice sweet and gracious goddess, addressing myself to LIBERTY, whom all in public or in private worship, whose taste is grateful, and ever will be so, till NATURE herself shall change no tint of words can spot thy snowy mantle...
Seite 284 - When a man doth compass or imagine the death of our lord the King, or of our Lady his Queen, or of their eldest son and heir; or if a man do violate the King's companion, or the King's eldest daughter unmarried, or the wife of the King's eldest son and heir...
Seite 14 - ... such compassings, imaginations, inventions, devices, or intentions, or any of them, shall express, utter, or declare, by publishing any printing or writing, or by any overt act or deed...
Seite 378 - ... and all other justices assigned to hear and determine, being in their places, doing their offices: and it is to be understood, that in the cases above rehearsed, that ought to be judged treason which extends to our lord the king, and his royal majesty...
Seite 358 - King, . . . and until the end of the next session of parliament after a demise of the crown, shall, within the realm or without, compass, imagine, invent, devise, or intend death or destruction, or any bodily harm tending to death or destruction, maim or wounding, imprisonment or restraint...
Seite 32 - House papers containing information respecting certain practices, meetings, and combinations in the metropolis, and in different parts of the kingdom, evidently calculated to endanger the public tranquillity, to alienate the affections of his Majesty's subjects from his Majesty's person and government, and to bring into hatred and contempt the whole system of our laws and constitution.
Seite 14 - Kingdom, in order by force or constraint to compel her or them to change her or their measures or counsels, or in order to put any force or constraint upon or in order to intimidate or overawe both Houses or either House of Parliament...
Seite 187 - And yet, by the ancient common law, there was a great latitude left in the breast of the judges to determine what was treason, or not so : whereby the creatures of tyrannical princes had opportunity to create abundance of constructive treasons ; that is, to raise, by forced and arbitrary constructions, offences into the 'crime and punishment of treason which never [ *7G ] were suspected to be such.
Seite 10 - Item, whereas divers opinions have been before this time in what case treason shall be said, and in what not; the King, at the request of the lords and of the commons, hath made a declaration in the manner as hereafter followeth, that is to say...